The creation of a plant in Nottinghamshire was described as the UK's Nasa moment.
The project to build a nuclear fusion reactor in Nottinghamshire has been described as the "UK's Nasa moment".
However, even if investors are found and construction completed on schedule, the facility is unlikely to open before 2040. “In order for the nuclei to fuse together on Earth, we need temperatures 10 times hotter than the Sun – around 100 million Celsius."Dr Brian Appelbe, a research fellow in nuclear fusion at Imperial College London, said fusion differed from traditional nuclear power – fission - in several fundamental ways.
“This is a much cleaner source of energy because it makes less radioactive material and it is radioactivity which doesn’t last as long.”
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